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Tubular Bells vs Larks' Tongues in Aspic

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Poll Question: Which album do you prefer?
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    Posted: January 18 2020 at 08:18
I'm not sure if I have ever done this one before but I don't think so so here it goes.
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Up with the Lark's!
More variety with that than Oldfield's album. First few minutes of it are OK, but I do wander from it.
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Larks, if it was Ommadawn it would be a diff story
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2020 at 09:15
Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Larks, if it was Ommadawn it would be a diff story

I actually never heard that one. I chose these two in part because they are both from 1973.
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I am a big fan of Tubular Bells (Oldfieldīs best), but itīs still Larks. KC is just so much greater to me. Not matter whatever Oldfield album there will be against any KC seventies album (if for example Tubular Bells vs Discipline itīs Tubular then).
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No Brainer for me...LTIA all the way.
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Larks for sure.............and I have never understood all the likes for Oldfield. 
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Tubular Bells easily, very easily indeed...
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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

Larks, if it was Ommadawn it would be a diff story


Same here, 2 and 3 on my all time list.
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Tubular Bells for me.
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yeah definitely Oldfield, and that's nowhere near his best
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote AFlowerKingCrimson Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2020 at 14:30
Originally posted by kenethlevine kenethlevine wrote:

yeah definitely Oldfield, and that's nowhere near his best

Wow, you must not be much of a King Crimson fan. Lol.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2020 at 15:26
Tubular Bells, iconic album! Larks' is good, but I rate a good number of Crimson albums higher.
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Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Tubular Bells, iconic album! Larks' is good, but I rate a good number of Crimson albums higher.

Not me. It's my absolute favorite. However, for a while I just thought it was whacked out and I didn't get it. That is until I realized it being so crazy is what made it so special. No other KC album like that.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mormegil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2020 at 16:15
The bells . . . the bells!
Welcome to the middle of the film.
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LTIA. The first movement of Tubular Bells is great, but it peters out pretty quickly thereafter.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote YESESIS Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2020 at 22:02
Voted for Larks'. I agree with Doug that if it had been Ommadawn would have been different... closer but still would have voted for Larks'. That's just a great album. I do like Ommadawn a lot though.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mortte Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2020 at 23:58
Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by Lewian Lewian wrote:

Tubular Bells, iconic album! Larks' is good, but I rate a good number of Crimson albums higher.

Not me. It's my absolute favorite. However, for a while I just thought it was whacked out and I didn't get it. That is until I realized it being so crazy is what made it so special. No other KC album like that.
Larks is not my favorite, but really high (I think only Court, Red & Lizard are ahead of it, Wake also quite the same level). Anyway together with Starless & Bible it has one of the quietest & loudest KC in same album and thatīs really great! And I really loved that album at the moment I heard it first time, as also other KC seventies albums! But itīs little bit funny I didnīt get into KC same time when I get into prog, I just heard then "Epitaph" & "the Court Of the Crimson King"-songs and they sounded me too pathetic. But some years after that I heard "In the Court"-album as whole and so started my KC-love!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Frenetic Zetetic Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2020 at 01:41
Interesting juxtaposition! LTIA is probably my fave KC record and era, so no brainer.

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